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Show FLOODS II THE EAST MH DEVASTATI8N TIi ou sands in Ohio Driven From Home: Many Factories Are Forced to Close. CLEVELAND. O., March 2. About 4000 persons arc now homeless in Ohio from floods. Many plants have been forced to close down and hundreds of men and women are out. of work. Tho mnterlal damage is estimated at over $1,000,000. The Licking and Muskingum rivers hove pnsscd their record of 1U0S, and are still rising. Over 000 persons arc now being fed by the city authorities at Znnesville. r A fresh horror confronts the people of Mauniee. where a. torrent laden with Ice and debris has swept over the- cemetery, and it la almost certain many bodies will have been uncovered by the tinio the watcis recede. Breaking Up Ice Jam, UTICA, N. Y.. .March 2. Persistent efforts ef-forts of gangs of powder men to break the lee jam at Herkimer has begun to realize encouraging results. While tho congestion has not been completely broken, a narrow channel has been forced, through which the long-checked watera nr now Mowing. Flvo Ions of dynamite dy-namite were exploded at the mouth of West. Canada creek today. At 0 o'clock tonight the water In the village streets had receded two feel and the people are taking an optimistic view of the situation. In other purts of New York and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania conditions are about the same. Flooded basements hav made furnace fires impossible at some points and the intense cold has added to the suffering. Mohawk Is Palling. LITTLE FALLS. N. Y.. March 2. The waters from the Mohawk- river and West Canad creek, which have Hooded the streets of West. I lorkoimcr for two days, began to recede last nighl. Dynamite was sent there- today and an effort will be made to blow up the Ice gorge in the Mohawk Vlver. The Mohawk division of the New York I Central railroad between Utica and Albany Al-bany is temporarily abandoned. AM th ( onlinueU. on Page Eight FLOODS IN THE EAST CAUSE DEVASTATION Continued From Pago One.' , New York Central trains aro running on the West Shore tracks. |